[NTLUG:Discuss] 486SX Distro

[Paul Ingendorf]

My major issue is with the lack of an FPU and the lack of the built in math emulation support on the various boot disks I have downloaded.  Does debian require an FPU or support an emulated fpu within its kernel.

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From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of David Stanaway
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] 486SX Distro


On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 09:43, Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> I'm looking for a distro that will support a 486SX 100 with X windows on 16mb of ram.  :-)  I know the constraints make this a tough system to work with which is why I thought I would post this as a question to the group as someone is bound to have actually done this and know of a distro that will do it fairly well.

I installed Debian on a 486DX33 with 16M of ram and ran X on it for a
while.

I gave up running X on it though as it was too slow.. but it does work.

I installed potato on it I think, or maybe it was slink, but it has
since been updated to testing (Which is the soon to be released next
version of debian).


You probably just want to install the base system (About 25M) and
manually (IE with apt-get install, rather than tasksel) install desired
packages and maybe delete some files you don't need as I imagine you
also have a spalce limitation on your 486.  Unless you have some older
<2G drives about.

I somehow fudged the bios into booting the 486 off a 10G drive but it
was fairly tricky.

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David Stanaway.